Description
2014 re-issue with three bonus live tracks
Spanish death metal act Avulsed fourth studio album and one thing Avulsed certainly do not do is break any important new ground in death metal. The compositions, although all interesting, are quite plain and the theme is as you can guess from the rather disturbing, well-done, if predictable cover art, gore. To give the mental Spaniards a chance though, they pull-off the gore, violence and perversion approach with a refreshing and almost satirical tongue-in-cheek humour that is both deliberately conscious and comparatively original and they pull-off a convincingly brutal death metal album chock-full of heavy, headbangable riffing and sick, intense drumming, while at the same time writing songs that are effortlessly catchy. This is not in any way a melodic death metal album, but it is so much more than a death metal album with melody at the same time. Almost all of it is memorable; if the leads aren’t leaving elegant melodies humming in the mind, the relentless rhythms will be bobbing the head at the slightest recollection. To top-off the wonderful music on offer, Avulsed are fronted by one of the most refreshing and talented vocalists in underground death metal. Dave Rotten of course holds his own on the beastial, guttural front, but his mark of distinction lies in his semi-clean rasps and higher piercing vocals. Possibly the most promising thing about Avulsed however is the fact that they’re just getting better and better with each album. While not quite as directly heavy as it’s predecessors, ‘Yearning For The Grotesque’ is by no means a compromise for commerciality, and it takes the first competent experimentations with catchy riffing and melody on ‘Stabwound Orgasm’ and completely overhauls them; stripping away the keyboards and developing songs around the strength of the riffs’ melodies or rhythms instead of more haphazardly inserting them into the middle of otherwise more blasting material. All in all a superb brutal death metal. Guest vocals on the songs ‘Daddy Stew’, ‘I Feel Good…Eating Human Flesh’ and ‘Morbid Chef’ by Bjorn Gosses from Night In Gales. The three bonus live tracks were recorded at the Sala Coprenico Nova in Madrid on the 3rd of December 2005
Track listing:
1. Wormeaten
2. Devourer Of The Dead
3. Pale Red Blood
4. Sick Sick Sex
5. Daddy Stew
6. I Feel Good… Eating Human Flesh
7. Foetivorous Marriage
8. Morbid Chef
9. Cadaver Decapitado
10. Decrepit Sigh
11. Amidst The Macabre-live
12. Stabwound Orgasm-live
13. Exorcismo Vaginal-live